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John Hilton

25th August 2024, 13:11

Mari

25th August 2024, 14:14

ExomatrixTV

25th August 2024, 16:49

Why Big Pharma Wants Us Sick | Dr. Casey Means (https://rumble.com/search/all?q=Casey%20Means)

https://1a-1791.com/video/s8/2/n/O/m/m/nOmmt.caa.mp4

source (https://rumble.com/v5botfx-why-big-pharma-wants-us-sick-dr.-casey-means.html)

Watch the full episode here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yineBV2bSzk) → • Is the Healthcare System Designed to Keep You Sick? | Dr. Casey Means (https://rumble.com/search/all?q=Casey%20Means)

Related issues:

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cheers,
John 🦜🦋🌳

Bill Ryan

25th August 2024, 17:35

This recent presentation by Chris Martenson fully belongs here as well: :muscle:

Pharma, Food and Big Ag: Working Against Your Health

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7VmqurxR-4

Satori

25th August 2024, 18:16

How Big Pharma Keeps You Sick, and the Dark Truth About Ozempic and the Pill. Tucker Carlson interviews Calley & Casey Means.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUH4Co2wE-I

TRANSCRIPT: https://files.catbox.moe/j0gpo6.txt

Here are some bullet points from the interview:-

• Autism rates in kids are 1 in 36 nationally, compared to 1 in 1500 in the not-so-distant past.
• In California, it’s even worse: Autism rates are 1 in 22.
• 74% of American adults are overweight or obese.
• Close to 50% of children are overweight or obese.
• 50% of American adults have prediabetes or type 2 diabetes, when only 1% of Americans in the 1950s had the disease.
• 30% of teens now have prediabetes.
• Infertility is increasing by 1% per year.
• Sperm counts are decreasing by 1% per year.
• 40% of 18-year-olds have a mental health diagnosis.
• Young adult cancers are up 79%.

mUH4Co2wE-I

Thanks for starting this thread and posting this interview.

Coincidentally, I had just this morning returned to reading “The Devil’s Chemist”, by Josiah E. Debois, Jr. The book can be found in the ProjectAvalon library I believe. It’s a somewhat critical look at IG Farben pre and post WWII.

DeBois was a lawyer who played an important role in the Nuremberg prosecution of 24 IG Farben chemists and top level management people at IG Farben. I’ve not finished the book. But I can barely get through a page without thinking of the parallels with then and what’s occurring today and has been occurring before and since WWII in the sciences of chemistry.

It is clear that IG Farben did not and could not operate in a vacuum. Then and now. What was done then, and is being done today, required the cooperation of many people in positions of power in many nations and global corporations. The “Devil” did not then and does not now limit its influence to chemists and chemistry. But chemistry does indeed play an essential and critical role in both good and evil. Unfortunately, far too much evil is carried out for control, power and profit.

shaberon

26th August 2024, 03:51

It is clear that IG Farben did not and could not operate in a vacuum. Then and now. What was done then, and is being done today, required the cooperation of many people in positions of power in many nations and global corporations.

Very much so.

The Germans merely took advantage of opportunity.

The backbone of what you are speaking of is Rockefeller + Italian Oil + Fiat Motors right around 1900. As far as I know, it continued right through Opus Dei and continues. Euro-American Fascism. At the time, of course, Germany "wasn't", although it has a few companies such as Farben, Bayer that came up in the 1800s.

Everything about Oil is necessary for Rockefeller Medicine, which, at least in America, is also Jesuitical.

I can forgive most common people up through around the 1940s thinking this was good for you. At some point you snap out of it.

I don't get sick because I have hardly ever been to a doctor. My parents of course took me when I was a kid, and I have had a few Amoxycillin-type courses, and that is about it. In those times, they only cared about the "Big Three"--Tetanus, Measles, and Polio I think, so I have never taken more, eh, I can't remember the name of those. Mandatory. What? Serums? Inoculations? Intoxications? Whatever you call that stuff.

I took a Tetanus booster, one time, voluntarily, to do school. Otherwise, I have only had a few over-the-counter products, and those, rarely. Ibuprofen nearly killed me. It actually says that in the fine print at the end of the label if you make it through all twelve pages. There is no one to give me more drugs because their hands are off of me. I feel so clean.

I'm actually not very clean, in the sense of being exposed to a lot of potential hazards, in terms of both people and "stuff" of a garbage-like nature and so forth. It doesn't matter.

I avoid them because a doctor is like a priest confessor. With either one you are getting the subliminal suggestion that something is wrong with you. It all starts from there.

This is simple:

Medicare is a system to confiscate your property.

So, it's keep you sick, then kill you for the house.

In geopolitik this is a Soft Kill system. Basically the same as death squads in Hard Kill countries, but more like the bullet that zips through your brain there, is going in really slow motion.

I came across something on here that summarizes why I understand that in early times, most people would believe in the medicine. This is the World Health Organization. Did you know that this is the only thing that has been unanimously approved by the world?

There is a story floating around about the founder or first chairman--a Canadian--Dr. Brock I think he was called. The claim is that he did this and that, is the sinister overlord of One World Government, this kind of thing. And a brief glance at him would tell you that he was "controversial".

Here's the controversy. The first main guy in the WHO was so radical that he actually said we might want to re-consider automatically teaching all our children to believe in the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy and these kinds of things. He really was one of the first public figures to raise such a discussion.

As long as *wrong* bits of information are not added to the pile, almost every damning indictment you can make on this subject is true.

The international concerted industries, everywhere, and the food and health situation particularly in America.

The Ibuprofen gave me this for 2-3 years:

Dermatographism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermatographic_urticaria)

Dermatographic urticaria is sometimes called "skin writing", as it is possible to mark deliberate patterns onto the skin.

The underlying cause of dermatographism is not known, and it can last for many years without relief.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Dermatographic_urticaria.jpg/640px-Dermatographic_urticaria.jpg

Mine was not quite that severe. But it was weird.

I like people who are more like medics, the ones who will give you stitches or possibly stop a heart attack, yes, I would say trauma response is important.

Not this industrial thing and its laws.

onawah

26th August 2024, 21:39

Longstanding History Of Big Pharma Crimes. "Deadly Medicines And Organized Crime" By Dr. Peter Goetzsche Is A Must Read
Ana Maria Mihalcea, MD, PhD
Aug 26 2024
https://anamihalceamdphd.substack.com/p/longstanding-history-of-big-pharma?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=956088&post_id=148124945&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=p7227&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

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"There are many brave whistleblowers who have sounded the alarm about the extreme corruption of the medical system. This book by Dr. Peter Goetzsche, founding member of the Cochrane Collaboration, was published in 2013. Of course, this outspoken stance led to professional persecution:

Hospital's suspension of evidence-based medicine expert sparks new controversy Petition in support of former Cochrane board member Peter Gøtzsche has received thousands of signatures

Now, 11 years later, the pharma companies continue to push their deadly “medicines” and “vaccines”. I wanted to provide some quotes from this important book, that I highly recommend for historical perspective of the corruption of Big Pharma. The means and methods of criminal conduct have not changed over the decades and the crimes are repetitive. This book also outlines not just he Big Pharma crimes, the fraud in the scientific literature, the false studies, the corruption of the continuing medical education system, the medical organization and physician corruption, the obscene over reporting of benefits and negating of harms. This book now has more historic meaning than every before, as we find ourselves in the biggest Big Pharma genocide to date.

Here are some selected passages from the book. If you still believe in Big Pharma, the allopathic health care system, the integrity of doctors, the honorability of peer reviewed studies - this book outlines with cold facts that debunk this romantic ideology and proves that Big Pharma and the healthcare system is nothing else but organized crime syndicate, out to profit at all costs, and without any conscience harming and killing millions. The entire system is based on fraud, bribery, lies and harm.

The characters in Aldous Huxley’s novel from 1932, Brave New World, can take Soma pills every day to give them control over their lives and keep troubling thoughts away. In the United States, TV commercials urge the public to do exactly the same. They depict unhappy characters that regain control and look happy as soon as they have taken a pill. We have already superseded Huxley’s wildest imaginations and drug use is still increasing. In Denmark, for example, we use so many drugs that every citizen, whether sick or healthy, can be in treatment with 1.4 adult daily doses of a drug every day, from cradle to grave.

The main reason we take so many drugs is that drug companies don’t sell drugs, they sell lies about drugs. Blatant lies that – in all the cases I have studied – have continued after the statements were proven wrong.

In the foreword by Richard Smith we read: Goetzsche quotes a former vice-president of Pfizer, who has said:

It is scary how many similarities there are between this industry and the mob. The mob makes obscene amounts of money, as does this industry. The side effects of organized crime are killings and deaths, and the side effects are the same in this industry. The mob bribes politicians and others, and so does the drug industry …

Many people are killed by the industry, many more than are killed by the mob.

Indeed, hundreds of thousands are killed every year by prescription drugs. Many will see this as almost inevitable because the drugs are being used to treat diseases that themselves kill. But a counter-argument is that the benefits of drugs are exaggerated, often because of serious distortions of the evidence behind the drugs, a ‘crime’ that can be attributed confidently to the industry.

Dr Goetzsche talks about the slogan “ safe and effective” - the most deceptive statement of the industry:

Organized crime, the business model of big pharma

Drug companies never talk about the benefits and harms of their drugs but about their efficacy and safety. Words create what they describe and the preferred semantics is seductive. It makes you think it can only be good for you to take drugs, as they are both efficacious and safe. Another reason why patients and doctors generally trust their drugs as being both efficacious and safe is that they think they have been carefully tested by the drug industry and carefully scrutinized by the drug regulatory agencies using high standards before they are allowed onto the market.

He explains the history of Pfizer:

An internal 2001 survey of Pfizer employees, which is not available to the public, showed that about 30% didn’t agree with the statement, ‘Senior management demonstrates honest, ethical behavior.’

In 2012, Pfizer agreed to pay $60 million to settle a US federal investigation into bribery overseas. Pfizer wasn’t only accused of bribing doctors, but also hospital administrators and drug regulators in several countries in Europe and Asia. The investigators said Pfizer units sought to hide the bribery by listing the payments in accounting records as legitimate expenses, such as training, freight and entertainment. According to court papers, the company wired monthly payments for what it described as ‘consultancy services’ to a doctor in Croatia who helped decide what drugs the government would register for sale and reimbursement. Pfizer didn’t admit or deny the allegations, which is routine practice when drug companies settle accusations of fraud.

Hoffman La Roche and the attack on Vitamins and Food

High- level Roche executives led a cartel that, according to the US Justice Department’s antitrust division, was the most pervasive and harmful criminal antitrust conspiracy ever uncovered. Top executives at some of the world’s biggest drug companies, largely from Europe and Asia, met secretly in hotel suites and at conferences. Working together in a coalition they brazenly called ‘Vitamins Inc.’, they carved up world markets and carefully orchestrated price increases, in the process defrauding some of the world’s biggest food companies. Roche alone had revenues of $3.3 billion in the United States while the conspiracy was running, and during that time, the conspirators gradually and artfully raised the prices of raw vitamins, so as not to attract notice; they also rigged the bidding process.

Roche pushed Valium (diazepam) to become the top- selling drug in the world, although many indications for its use were highly doubtful and the wholesale price was 25 times the price of gold. In the early 1970s, Roche was fined by antitrust officials in Europe for engaging in anti-competitive behavior in the sale of Valium and another best-selling tranquilizer, Librium (chlordiazepoxide).

It took 27 years after the first report about dependence had been published before the drug regulators fully acknowledged that tranquilizers are strongly addictive, just like heroin and other narcotics.

Dr. Goetzsche discusses the fraud charges over time pertaining to Big Pharma:

Pfizer agreed to pay $2.3 billion in 2009
This was the largest healthcare fraud settlement in the history of the US Department ofJustice at the time. A subsidiary of the firm pleaded guilty to misbranding drugs ‘with the intent to defraud or mislead’, and the firm was found to have illegally promoted four drugs: Bextra (valdecoxib, an anti-arthritis drug, withdrawn from the market in 2005), Geodon (ziprasidone, an antipsychotic drug), Zyvox (linezolid, an antibiotic) and Lyrica (pregabalin, an epilepsy drug).

An amount of $1billion was levied to resolve the allegations that Pfizer paid bribes and offered lavish hospitality to healthcare providers to encourage them to prescribe the four drugs,and six whistle-blowers would receive$102 million. Pfizer entered a Corporate Integrity Agreement with the US Department of Health and Human Services, which means that good behavior is required for the next 5 years.

Glaxo Smith Kline to pay $3 billion in 2011
This is the largest healthcare fraud settlement in US history. Glaxo Smith Kline pleaded guilty to having marketed a number of drugs illegally for off-label use, including Wellbutrin (bupropion, an antidepressant), Paxil (paroxetine, an antidepressant), Advair (fluticasone + salmeterol, an asthma drug), Avandia (rosiglitazone, a diabetes drug) and Lamictal (lamotrigine, an epilepsy drug).

The Justice Department charged a former vice president and top lawyer for Glaxo a year earlier with making false statements and obstructing a federal investigation into illegal marketing of Wellbutrin for weight loss. The indictment accused the vice president of lying to the FDA, denying that doctors speaking at company events had promoted Wellbutrin for uses not approved by the agency, and of withholding incriminating documents.

Roche convinces governments to stockpile Tamiflu
Roche has committed what to me looks like the biggest theft in history, but no one has yet dragged the company to court. In preparation for the mild 2009 influenza epidemic, the European and US governments spent billions of Euros and dollars on the purchase of Tamiflu (oseltamivir). Roche has omitted publishing most of their clinical trial data and has refused to share them with independent Cochrane researchers. Based on unpublished trials, Roche has claimed that Tamiflu reduces hospital admissions by 61%, secondary complications by 67%, and lower respiratory tract infections requiring antibiotics by 55%. Curiously, the company convinced the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to approve the drug for prevention of influenza complications, and the agency’s summary of product characteristics stated that lower respiratory tract complications were reduced from 12.7% to 8.6% (P = 0.001).

In contrast, the FDA sent Roche a warning letter that the company should stop claiming that Tamiflu reduces the severity and incidence of secondary infections, and it required Roche to print a disclaimer on the labels: ‘Tamiflu has not been proven to have a positive impact on the potential consequences (such as hospitalizations, mortality, or economic impact) of seasonal, avian, or pandemic influenza.’

Drummond Rennie, editor of JAMA, who, in his announcement for the first peer review congress, stated:

‘There seems to be no study too fragmented, no hypothesis too trivial, no literature citation too biased or too egoistical, no design too warped, no methodology too bungled, no presentation of results too inaccurate, too obscure, and too contradictory, no analysis too self-serving, no argument too circular, no conclusions too trifling or too unjustified, and no grammar and syntax too offensive for a paper to end up in print.’

The book goes on to list fines for other Big Pharma companies for fraud

Johnson & Johnson fined more than $1.1 billion in 2012
A jury found that the company and its subsidiary Janssen had downplayed and hidden risks associated with its antipsychotic drug Risperdal (risperidone). The judge found nearly 240 000 violations under Arkansas’ Medicaid-fraud law.

Merck to pay $670 million over Medicaid fraud in 2007
Merck had failed to pay the appropriate rebates to Medicaid and other government healthcare programmes, and had also paid kickbacks to doctors and hospitals to induce them to prescribe various drugs.

Eli Lilly to pay more than $1.4 billion for illegal marketing in 2009
Eli Lilly entered into a settlement with the Department of Justice concerning a wide- ranging, off-label marketing scheme for its top-selling antipsychotic drug, Zyprexa (olanzapine).

Abbott to pay $1.5 billion for Medicaid fraud in 2012
Abbott settled allegations of Medicaid fraud for the company’s illegal marketing of the epilepsy drug Depakote (valproate);

Here are a few more quotes from the book

The drug industry is unique in that it can make exploitation appear a noble purpose.

-Former medical director of Squibb at a US Senate hearing

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We have doctors from all over the world who drop into Australia on a first class all expenses paid junket/trip telling us how great a particular medicine is. If you read the small print on a pharmaceutical company flier you will find most references are ‘on file’ or have been presented at a midnight session of the Darfur Cardiologists Conference. As a medical director of a pharmaceutical company I learnt how to get articles published in journals with one journal promising publication if we purchased 2000 reprints at $10 each.

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The wooden spoon in futility I have seen so far goes to erlotinib for treatment of pancreatic cancer. Both the FDA and the EMA approved it, although it only prolongs life by 10 days, is toxic and will cost almost $500 000 for 1 year of life gained (10 days for each of 36 patients that aren’t even pleasant).

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If the American people knew some of the things that went on at the FDA, they’d never take anything but Bayer aspirin. -Len Lutwalk, FDA scientist

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It is really scaring that a survey showed that 70% of FDA scientists are not confident that products approved by the FDA are safe. And that 66% lack confidence in the FDA’s safety monitoring of marketed drugs. The citizens have a similar view. In a public poll, 76% worried that the FDA didn’t communicate safety issues effectively.

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A former FDA scientist, Ronald Kavanagh, spoke out about crimes and gangster methods at the agency:

While I was at FDA, drug reviewers were clearly told not to question drug companies and that our job was to approve drugs … If we asked questions that could delay or prevent a drug’s approval – which of course was our job as drug reviewers – management would reprimand us, reassign us, hold secret meetings about us, and worse. Obviously in such an environment, people will self-censor … Human studies are usually too short and the number of subjects in them too small to adequately characterize the most dangerous risks. That’s why even a single case has to be taken seriously … I frequently found companies submitting certain data to one place and other data to another place and safety information elsewhere so it could not all be pulled together and then coming in for a meeting to obtain an agreement and proposing that the safety issue is negligible … if reviewers say things that companies don’t like, they will complain about the reviewer or they will call upper management and have the reviewer removed or overruled. On one occasion, the company even told me they were going to call upper management to get a clear requirement for approval that they did not want to fulfill eliminated, which I then saw happen. On another occasion a company clearly stated in a meeting that they had ‘paid for an approval’ … Sometimes we were literally instructed to only read a 100–150 page summary and to accept drug company claims without examining the actual data, which on multiple occasions I found directly contradicted the summary document. Other times I was ordered not to review certain sections of the submission, but invariably that’s where the safety issues would be … FDA’s response to most expected risks is to deny them and wait until there is irrefutable evidence postmarketing, and then simply add a watered down warning in the labeling … When you do raise potential safety issues, the refrain that I heard repeatedly from upper management was‚‘where are the dead bodies in the street?’ Which I took to mean that we only do something if the press is making an issue of it … Later, I found that the FDA had internal documents that had the same conclusion [as] my analysis but they had been withheld from the advisory committee … After FDA management learned I had gone to Congress about certain issues, I found my office had been entered and my computer physically tampered with. I saw strange cursor movements on my computer when I was just sitting at my desk reading that I suspected was evidence of spying … The threats, however, can be much worse than prison. One manager threatened my children – who had just turned 4 and 7 years old – and in one large staff meeting, I was referred to as a ‘saboteur.’ Based on other things that happened and were said, I was afraid that I could be killed for talking to Congress and criminal investigators … I found evidence of insider trading of drug company stocks reflecting knowledge that likely only FDA management would have known. I believe I also have documentation of falsification of documents, fraud, perjury, and widespread racketeering, including witnesses tampering and witness retaliation … In fact, thanks in part to the Prescription Drug User Fee Act [in which drug companies pay for expedited reviews], thalidomide could not be stopped today.

Summary:

Please read the book. As new psychological operations come your way, be it monkeypox, avian flu or other fake news plandemics, remember that the entire industry is a gangster mob, that has bought media, academia, politicians, medical associations, universities, hospital administrators, doctors for one purpose: their own profit.

I also highly recommend “The Truth About The Drug Companies - How They Decieve Us And What To Do About It - by Marcia Angell, MD former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Humanity United Now - Ana Maria Mihalcea, MD, PhD is a reader-supported publication. "

Vicus

26th August 2024, 22:24

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Bill Ryan

27th August 2024, 22:20

This recent presentation by Chris Martenson fully belongs here as well: :muscle:

Pharma, Food and Big Ag: Working Against Your Health

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7VmqurxR-4A follow-up which has just started streaming, and which I believe may also belong on this thread:

A Nation in Decline: The Death Cult’s Impact on the U.S.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0B2gE_MsOU

shaberon

28th August 2024, 04:48

That list of payouts is intriguing. Usually we expect "settlement" but then we are told Pfizer pled guilty on fraud. And they made one of our Covid masterpieces, right?

Remember those days?

What was happening was that the "opioid lawsuits" were being "settled", except, one state was about to not settle for it.

The boomerang here is that, although, one way or the other, they are going to pay out a pittance versus the damage done, you know how it works?

The payments are dependent on the companies' future profits.

That's not really a "fine", it's a business plan.

If we didn't have Covid, then, probably the opioid people would keep getting the same nothing they had already got.

We rewarded:

Moderna, who had never successfully gotten a vaccine to the market

Pfizer, who confessed that they fraudulently represent their products

And this takes place at least fifty years after everyone should have started understanding what was going on.

I found out something even more bizarre recently.

Here, this ADHD thing is a normal household word. Someone "has" it. Almost anyone that has multiple children is going to say this. Consequently we find people in the workforce who claim to have it. I know a young lady who is twenty-four, which means she has no clue about anything other than a post-9/11 world. Her dad drives her to work. She refuses to get a driver license because of ADHD. She told me she would literally start watching birds fly and everything else that is not on the road.

This is while taking five times the normal dose of a "treatment".

Is this going to be a thing? Should we start describing people as "unsafe to operate anything, because you are alive"?

Bill Ryan

1st September 2024, 12:33

Another follow-up by Chris Martenson, this time in conversation with Dr. Ken Berry, whose website is https://drberry.com. They discuss how we're systematically being poisoned, deliberately or otherwise, by the Big Food manufacturers, and how to best protect yourself.

Getting Healthy is Easier Than You Think

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQPEbwOHQRM

Pilutaq

28th January 2025, 00:21

54378

Nazi History of Eugenics and Infiltration into the Pharmaceutical Industry

Dan Willis is one of the Top Secret Military Witnesses that testified at the National Press Club in Washington DC in 2001 in front of the major mainstream media of the world.
A world disclosure event prompted by those within our government with legal constitutional authority being illegally denied access. This event was asking for a congressional hearing in order to bring forth the witness scientists within the unacknowledged special access projects in order to release the advanced technologies derived from extraterrestrial reverse engineering that have been hidden for over 70 years that could stop further damage to our planet, as well as acknowledging the extraterrestrial presence on our planet. Instead, the message was sanitized by a controlled mainstream media to the public.

From his personal first hand experiences, as well as looking into the historical indicators that have been purposely omitted from our education system that reveals an infiltration of unwarranted influences operating behind the secrecy established for our National Security system. A system that is used to control the public's perception that forms our "agreed upon reality". This is done in order to hide their illegal operations, and why they fear disclosing the truth about the extraterrestrial reality.

An ex-radio broadcast engineer and ABC newsman, Dan has taken a keen interest in how the mainstream media has withheld disclosure of the full message to the public, a message based on the hundreds of credible military and intelligence witness testimonies.

The following article reflects on this question... "Who controls the agreed upon reality through the Mainstream Media and why they fear disclosing the truth about the extraterrestrial reality?"

The answer to this question, of course you must ultimately decide.

https://thewebmatrix.net/bigpharma.html

Tintin

31st January 2025, 06:52

This lady spells it - autism - out very succinctly here: bravo :highfive:

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grapevine

16th July 2025, 11:27

RunningDeer

16th July 2025, 13:11

I Worked for Big Pharma: What I Saw Will Shock You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27qUyMuYZJw&ab_channel=MorePerfectUnion (9:34)
Lisa Pratta was a sales rep for drug manufacturer Questcor — then she became a whistleblower. She witnessed bribes and was screamed at to illegally sell a multiple sclerosis drug. So she went after the pharma giant. Now, she wants to see the entire system to change.

Lisa confirming how the system works.

False Claims: One Insider's Impossible Battle Against Big Pharma Corruption
by Lisa Pratta, published June 3, 2025

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71K20Jx8bjL._SY522_.jpg

Summary (https://www.amazon.com/False-Claims-Insiders-Impossible-Corruption/dp/0063371103/ref=sr_1_1?crid=14JK3GMXA1X8T&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.prtnagNc6iJTgAER_EE22G4tVvlAeYNGMmVNkI7vJeLGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.x1rBZlNemXbb9h4EzN NDVRW0fdBVxcEqFh1259__tGs&dib_tag=se&keywords=false+claims+lisa+pratta&qid=1752670837&sprefix=false+claims,aps,112&sr=8-1):

In Big Pharma, lives are secondary to profit margins. But Lisa Pratta stood her ground—risking everything to expose the lies of a billion-dollar pharmaceutical business mired in deception, greed, and the systemic abuse of both patients and employees

As a rising star in pharmaceutical sales, Lisa Pratta wanted to believe that she was helping improve the lives of people who suffered from illness. But as she climbed the corporate ladder, she uncovered a sinister world of bribery, fraud, and sexual harassment—all papered over with a thin veneer of corporate respectability.

At Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Lisa found herself at a small company with a blockbuster drug that could have been a lifeline for patients suffering from multiple sclerosis—that is, if it was prescribed properly. But instead, Questcor chose profits over patients, training its sales force to push untested treatment regimens with the sole purpose of beating its competition. Lisa recognized this as not only dangerous but highly illegal. In the midst of this controversy, Questcor arbitrarily inflated the drug’s price to a jaw-dropping $28,000 per vial. Torn between her morals and the financial stability the job provided for her special-needs son, Lisa made a decision that would change her life forever: she reported the fraudulent practices of the company to the federal government.

For nearly a decade, she led a double life—feeding insider information to the Department of Justice while enduring the relentless demands of her company to sell their drug using illegal marketing tactics. She faced constant fear of exposure, knowing that the government offered her no protection if her secrets were revealed. Nonetheless, Lisa pressed on, determined to hold Questcor accountable for the laws they were breaking and the lives they were endangering.

This incredible true story offers a sobering look at the unscrupulous sales methods used by America’s corrupt pharmaceutical industry, spotlights the levers they pull to extract ludicrous profits from the sick and dying, and is a page-turning portrait of one woman’s heroic fight against Big Pharma and a mother’s struggle to protect her family.